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THE WORKSHOP
EXPERIENCE:Our glamour
photography workshop is an excellent opportunity
to shoot great photos of lovely young models in
the kind of sexy poses that you'd see in some of
the best magazines. Our workshop is open to
serious photographers of all skill levels,
including amateurs and full- and part-time
professionals. Most of our attendees are
advanced amateurs. Our workshop format is
informal - you decide which models you wish to
shoot and how much time you want to spend with
each model.

In the past we've have guest instructors
demonstrate their lighting and posing
techniques. Our most recent mentor is Stephen
Eastwood, beauty and fashion photographer,
Canon Explorer of Light, and Model Mayhem
moderator. We've also had award-winning Master
Photographer Keith Mills, who has a portrait
studio in Spring Lake, NJ - he has instructed at
40 of our workshops. Steve Sint from Popular
Photography magazine has also been a guest
instructor. We currently have Digital
Willy, who specializes in high-key pinup
lighting, at most of our workshops - he has been
to over 200 of our workshops. Photographers can
choose to work with the instructor, when
available, or on their own.

Go to our FAQ page for
information about our current instructors and
staff members.LOCATIONS:From August, 2003,
through December, 2013, we had 189 workshops at
our studio in Metuchen, NJ. We were forced to
move out of our studio at the end of 2013 when
the owners closed the building. Now, all of our
workshops are held on location. I've been
running the workshop since 1991 and have had
over 390 workshops since then. In August, 2003,
we ran an 8-day photo cruise that started in
South Beach, Florida, then we flew to Panama and
took a cruise through the San Blas Islands,
Central America. Playboy/Penthouse photographer
Paul Miller
was with us as our guest instructor. Click here
for some photos of that trip.

Southport, CT: In
the summer of 2002 we started doing workshops in
southern Connecticut and had 10 workshops at a
private estate in Southport. The property is
totally private and had many great indoor and
outdoor shooting areas, making it usable
year-round. Some of the shooting areas include a
beautiful flower and vegetable garden, a patio,
and an indoor pool and Jacuzzi. The living room
and dining room have good available light. Click here for
photos of this location.

Westport, CT: This
location is a beautiful 15-room private estate
in Westport, CT, that we've used 3 times between
June, 2004, and May, 2005. It has 2 acres of
property with 10,000 sq ft of living area. It
also has a great stone pool with waterfall,
flower gardens, tennis court, Jacuzzi, glass
shower, sauna, bedrooms, living room with spiral
staircase, grand piano, fireplaces, workout room
and more. It has an indoor, below ground
racquetball court that we would often turn into
a studio shooting area. It also has an outdoor
deck on the second floor with barbecue grill
that we use for cooking a barbecue at the
workshop. Click here
for photos of this location.

Playboy Party
House: We've used this location in Westchester
County, NY, 8 times between August, 2005, and
May, 2007. It is just over the border from CT.
This 20-room house,
located on 6 acres of fully secluded
woodland near Pound Ridge, NY, had a large
indoor atrium pool and a large outdoor
pool. It also had 2 saunas and a Jacuzzi,
a weight room with boxing bag, a music
room with guitars and piano, and a party
room with a dancers stage and pole. Some
of the other features included showers
with water falls and multiple jets, an
electric blue bathroom, master bedroom
with Jacuzzi and scenic wall painting.
Outside it had luscious gardens and walks,
and a disco dance floor and huge bar. The
house also had a long glass wall hall and
a circular 2-story glass walled stairway.
This house had been used for music videos
and Playboy parties. Unfortunately, the
owner has since died and the location is
no longer available. Click here
for photos.

We've also had
workshops in Wilton,
Weston, and East Norwalk, CT, and
in Rye, NY. All of these locations are luxurious
private homes.

Frog Hollow Studio:
Another one of our favorite locations is Frog
Hollow Studio, about 12 miles NW of
Philadelphia. We've had 6 workshops at this
location between August, 2004, and April, 2014.
The location is a
5.5 acre private estate with a photo
studio and outdoor shooting areas. The
air-conditioned studio was designed by
the owner and built by Amish and
Mennonite workers in the style of a
Pennsylvania barn. The studio has a
30x40' shooting area with a 30' cyc
wall and 16' high ceiling. It also has
an overhanging loft and spiral
stairway. The owner's house was built
in 1767 of native fieldstone. The
property has no public road frontage
and is surrounded by trees and has a
100' pond. Click
here for photos of this
location. We would like to have more
workshops at this location in the
future.

West Milford, NJ:
In early 2003 we started using a bed and
breakfast in West Milford, NJ, for our
workshops. This was a beautiful 6 bedroom inn
located in rural northern New Jersey on a 450
acre estate with a 55 acre lake. We had the
entire inn to ourselves and could shoot in any
of the rooms and outdoor locations. We were able
to use this location year-round and we even had
a three-day workshop there. We had 11 workshops
at this location between May, 2003, and
November, 2006. Click
here for photos taken at this location.
Unfortunately, this location is no longer a bed
and breakfast.

In the past few
years we have also used a campground in PA and a
model's home in North Plainfield, NJ. Some of
the other locations in New Jersey that we've
used in the past include a large commercial
photo studio in Englewood that we've used 7
times, a studio in Clark that we used 5 times,
and another studio in Garfield and one in Fairfield
that we used once. We've also had workshops at
private home in Stockholm, the Birch Hill
Entertainment Center in Old Bridge, an empty
warehouse in Cranford, and had three workshops
at a farm in Whitehouse Station.

Another location in
Pennsylvania that we've used is a photo studio
near Reading that has both indoor and outdoor
shooting areas. We were there twice. We've also
used a bowling alley in the Poconos, a former
turkey farm in Kunkletown and we had a couple of
two-day workshops at my friend's 41-acre estate
near Scranton.

In the beginning
(1991) we held the workshops at a studio I had
in Roselle Park, NJ. One of our most popular
locations was a luxurious 4-acre private estate
in Howell, NJ, where we've had 79 workshops from
July, 1991, to December, 1999. We've also had 24
workshops on the beach at Sandy Hook, a National
Park in NJ.

In the past few
years we've had workshops at homes in Wall, Manalapan, and Sparta, NJ. Also, a
beautiful home in Brooklyn,
NY, a studio in Hightstown,
a studio in Fairfield,
and at the Art
Factory in Paterson, NJ. We are always
looking for additional locations to hold our
workshop - if you know of any, please contact
us.

MODELS:It's easy to get
great shots when you're working with great
models. Most of our models are freelancers,
often college students or recent grads,
generally ranging in age from 18 to about 29.
Most of our models do nudes, mostly artistic or
Playboy-style nudes, while others are a bit more
erotic. We also use models who only do topless,
lingerie or bikini. Models are hired based on
their good looks and modeling skills,
cooperative disposition and reliability. Most of
our models have that “girl next door” look,
while others are more exotic. If you are a model
who is interested in modeling at our workshop,
or if you know someone who might be interested click here
for more info. (We are only looking for female
models, age 18+, please.)

Probably our most high-profile model that we've
had at the workshop was Joslyn
Pennywell, a contestant on America's Next
Top Model. She was at our February 22, 2009,
workshop, and was on the recent cycle of the
ANTP, which ended in November, 2008.

One of our favorite
models in the past, Tracy Bancroft, was featured
in the August 1997 issue of Playboy Magazine.
She had a full page photo in a pictorial called
“Biker Babes”. Her photo was shot by Richard
Fegley on location at a biker bar in Chicago.
Tracy did a four-day Playboy promotion at the
big biker convention in South Dakota just before
she did our September '97 workshop. Tracy has
been one of the most popular models we have had
and has done 13 of our workshops.

Another one of our
models, Kelly
Kole, was in Playboy's Sexy Celebrities
and was in the August 2001 issue of Playboy as
part of a 6 page layout called the "Girls of
Bada Bing!" She was also in the November 2001
Celebrity Sleuth Magazine, and has appeared on
the Sopranos, Saturday Night Live, Third Watch,
and The View, and has appeared in 3 independent
films. She also had a national Crown Royal ad in
summer 2001. Kelly has done 3 of our workshops
and went with us on our Panama Cruise. Another
high-profile model who went with us to Panama is
Playboy model and April, 1994, Penthouse Pet Andrea Mountjoy.

One of our favorite
models ever to do the workshop was Playboy model
and actress Laurie
Wallace, "The Hottest Playboy Model On The
Net". Laurie was in the July 2002 issue of
Playboy and has been on the cover (12/01) and
inside 7 issues of Playboy's Book of Lingerie,
on the cover (6/01) and inside 3 issues of
Playboy's Girlfriends, and has been featured on
Playboy TV. She has also been featured in Fox,
Cheri, High Society, Club, Leg Show, and other
adult magazines. On her web site she lists 21
adult films that she has done. She has also been
on many TV shows (including Howard Stern's show
on "E!"), has been featured in many magazines
(including Maxim), has done many TV commercials
(including the Super Bowl commercial for
HotJobs.com), and has done numerous print ads
and catalogs.

One of our former
workshop regulars, Seregon
O'Dassey, was featured in the April, 2006,
issue of Playboy as the Employee of the Month.
Seregon is also a two-time Maxim Magazine
Hometown Hottie.

Some other
high-profile models that we've had include adult
film star Anita Blue,
and adult film star Charlie
Laine, who is a regular on various Playboy
TV shows.

We usually have
about a 2:1 photographer to model ratio and
we've had as many as 16 models at a workshop. We
brought 13 models with us on our Panama trip.

MODEL
RELEASES:All our models sign
a limited workshop model release which gives
permission to use the photos for self-promotion,
display, exhibition, and competition. It also
allows photographers to use the photos on their
own personal web site, but not on a pay site.
The limited release does not allow commercial
usage of the workshop photos. A set of model
releases is now included in the cost of the
workshop and is available for download. For a
discussion of model releases and to view a copy
of our workshop model release click here.
PRIVATE
ONE-ON-ONE
SESSIONS:We usually schedule
private one-on-one sessions before and after
each workshop. Here's how the one-on-ones work:
Models who wish to participate will be available
either before or after the workshop for 30
minute private sessions. We usually have 6
sessions available after each workshop, plus one
or two sessions before the workshop for select
models, depending on time restrictions at each
location.

Most of our one-on-one sessions are $50.
Photographers can sign up in advance, or at the
workshop if the model is still available. Some
models will sign a standard model release for
the photos shot during the one-on-one session -
but be sure to ask the model in advance and
remember to bring your model releases. The
models normally sign a limited model release for
the open shooting part of the workshop. Click here
for more info. PHOTOGRAPHERS:Most of our
photographers come from New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. However, at last
count, some have come from as far away as
Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas, Mississippi,
Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, Washington
DC, Boston, Buffalo, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, and even Canada (3 from Toronto and 1
from Calgary). One photographer from South
Carolina has been to 17, another from Maryland
has been to 13, one from DC has been to 8, and
one from Virginia has attended 5 workshops. A
photographer from the Toronto area has attended
6 workshops. CORPORATE
SUPPORTERS:A rep from Fujifilm
has been to more than 20 of our workshops. He
would always brings us free film, door prizes,
and other goodies. He has also brought special
Fuji cameras for us to try and has given us a
demo of the Fuji digital camera and scanner, and
Fuji medium-format, auto-focus cameras. Ilford Photo
has also supported us by supplying film and
paper at one of our workshops. We've also had Red River
Paper as a sponsor. COST:Unless otherwise
noted, most of our workshops cost $200 if you
sign up in advance or $250 if you do not
pre-register. You do not have to pay in advance
- in fact we prefer that you pay at the
workshop. Just send and email to register. Click
here for more info or
to sign up for our next workshop. Cash at the
door is the preferred method of payment.